Lourdes Ribas-Barba
Carlos III Health Institute
57 Papers
563 Citations
Lourdes Ribas-Barba is an academic researcher from Carlos III Health Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 54 publications. Previous affiliations of Lourdes Ribas-Barba include University of Barcelona.
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Papers
•Journal Article
How many children and adolescents in Spain comply with the recommendations on physical activity
TL;DR: Exercise is not a widespread leisure time activity in Spanish children and youth and few individuals did enough exercise for health promotion, so public health campaigns should take into account socio-economic variables and improve the access to sports facilities.
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Nutrient adequacy in Spanish children and adolescents.
TL;DR: Nutritional adequacy in Spanish children was, in general, adequate, although it is necessary to analyse the implications of high inadequate intakes of vitamins D, E and A, which means that the current recommended intakes should be reconsidered.
Mediterranean diet and waist circumference in a representative national sample of young Spaniards
Helmut Schröder,Michelle A. Mendez,Lourdes Ribas-Barba,María Isabel Covas,Lluis Serra-Majem,Lluis Serra-Majem +5 more
TL;DR: Following Mediterranean dietary principles may be important in reducing the risk of high waist circumference in young people, according to the principles sustaining Mediterranean dietary patterns.
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Evaluating associations between Mediterranean diet adherence indexes and biomarkers of diet and disease
TL;DR: The research findings suggest the potential usefulness of biomarkers as complementary tools for assessing adherence to a dietary pattern and the most highly significant relationship was that between folates and the adherence to the MD Pattern, as determined by both indexes.
Dietary assessment methods for intakes of iron, calcium, selenium, zinc and iodine.
Lluis Serra-Majem,Karina Pfrimer,Jorge Doreste-Alonso,Lourdes Ribas-Barba,Almudena Sánchez-Villegas,Adriana Ortiz-Andrellucchi,Patricia Henríquez-Sánchez +6 more
TL;DR: A review of methods used in validation studies carried out in adults assessing dietary intake of EURRECA priority minerals provides new insights regarding the characteristics that assessment methods for dietary mineral intakes should fulfil.